Banner Wave Nurbs+sine Deformer

[loganb]

I'm trying to animate a simple banner waving loop.

This is a Nurbs shape , emulating a banner type that has a stiff rod along the top - sort of a Flag tipped sideways/horizontally.

I am wondering if there is a way to anchor the CVs along the top edge, so the sine deformer only effects the lower CVs on the banner.

Is the sine deformer inappropriate for this?

[joojaa]

You can use a blendshape to modify any nodes behavior per point even if they dont support per point weights.

[loganb]

Jooja to the rescue once again!

It took some reworking but that did the trick:

1.)Created NURBS base banner, added sine deformer to create desired waving
2.) Set sine envelope to 0 and duplicated base banner (now flat)
3.) used flat banner as blend target, with blend set to 1 this flattened the base banner despite the since deformer.
4.) editing weights in the component editor, I was able to remove the blend shape influence fromall but the top CV's, creating the "flat" top I wanted.

Thanks again, jooja!
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